Black on Black

Can you see Sarah Dooley?  She went to get her nails clipped this weekend and I saw an estate sale on my way to Petsmart, which means I had to pull over and take a peak inside the estate sale.

Timmy is hott

Catching up on my DVR:  Did anyone else see Tim McGraw on the season finale of American Idol?  He is one fine looking man.  Three people made my fun spots tingle on the finale show: 1) Tim in his boots and jeans 2) Beyonce in her first performance 3) Jennifer Lopez in her dance number. 

Being Offensive

On Wednesday night I went to a cocktail party at the home of one of my newer friends.  We work together on an advisory board, he's a couple of years older than I am, and I've hung out with him and his wife at least one time previously.  This event was held in his home, which is in my neighborhood. 

His wife is really funny and while I was talking to her I realized that she must not work outside the home.  They don't have any human children.  They're our age.  They both went to UT.  So I was confused when it sounded like she didn't have an office job...

Me:  "I don't know the least offensive way to ask...but are you a housewife?!"

Erin: "Wow, that's the most offensive way to ask."

Doh!

Stuffed Mini Potatoes

You should try Paula Deen's Cheesy Bacon Stuffed Mini Potatoes!  It's a fun way to serve a potato, and Yukon gold potatoes are my favorite potatoes; they are delicious.

Happy Memorial Day

I hope I never outgrow the feeling of excitement that comes with the unofficial start to summer - Memorial Day Weekend.  Thanks to all the men and women both gay and straight that have served our country!

Do No Harm

My husband's Discover magazine early this year listed the top 100 stories from 2010, and the results of a 25 year study showing that same sex parents do no harm to their children was story number 88.  This finding is not surprising to me; I've always thought that the children of a gay couple would consider it normal to have two dads and no mom.  The idea of "normal" depends on your point-of-view.

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"Ever since U.S. sperm banks began to
accept lesbian clients in the mid-1980s, critics have argued that same-sex parenting could damage children’s psychological well-being. In June a 25-year, ongoing study published in the journal Pediatrics came to a very different conclusion, finding that children of lesbian mothers experience healthy social, emotional, and psychological development. The study, led by University of California, San Francisco psychiatrist Nanette Gartrell, included 78 kids conceived through donor insemination and raised by lesbian mothers. Beginning in 1986 Gartrell interviewed women in San Francisco, Boston, and Washington, D.C., during pregnancy and again when their children turned 2, 5, 10, 
and 17; she also used clinical question­naires to define behavior. At 17 those children scored higher, on average, than their peers in social and academic competence and lower in aggressive behavior and social problems."

Lucas - 1986

 

I tried to rest as much as possible on Saturday; my husband went to our friends' fried chicken and water volleyball party while I stayed in bed.  It's been hard for my body to recover from our Georgian adventures, and I wanted to sleep.  The movie channel Encore is having a Big '80's weekend, and I watched the 1986 film Lucas while I was on the couch.    After all these years this film can still hold my attention and sends a good message.